Unit 21733

Category: Layer    dug in 2014

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: Hearth superstructure 

Data Category Information: In Situ: in situ; Location: feature; Description: hearth; Material: pise-like; Deposition: homogeneous

Discussion: This unit was recognized as a new unit/superstructure layer due to the presence of large marley/plaster inclusions and lenses, unlike the previous superstructure. It does not contain a ledge that laps up onto the plaster and make up layers to the S and the dirty floor layers with a fire spot to the E (unlike U 21731) but is instead very flat regular in elevation acorss the entire perimeter of the hearth. This seems to be the superstructure that was built before preparation began for the plaster edge U. 20078. With the removal of the superstructures that created much higher, lipped edges, the hearth now appears to be sunken against the sunken floor. U.21733 seems to also sit on a very thin plaster layer, which might turn out to be an earlier incarnation of the plaster molding like U 20078, which also seems to lap up onto the sunken floor's edge. 

Consistency: Friable 

Colour: Light grayish brown 

Texture: sandy clay 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: marley 

Post-depositional Features: none 

Basal Boundary: clear 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): below: (Click to view the record) 21731, 21729 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 6 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 3

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Finds Room Information:

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X Finds Material: nothing recorded  

Finds Material Stored: nothing recorded  

Lab Team Data

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